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NL W. CONDICT; Jr.

Portable Railway.

No. 229.574. Pafented July '6, 1880.

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PATENT OFFICEO NATHAN W. GONDIGT, JB., OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

PO RTAB LE RA I LWAY.

SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 229,674, dated July 6, 1880.

Application filed May 20,1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concw:

Be it known that I, NATHAN W. GoNDIcr, Jr., of Jersey City, in the County of Hudson and State ofNewJersey, a citizen of the United States, have invented an Improvement in Portable Railways, of which the following is a specification. i

My invention relates to portable railways which consist of a series of seif-contained sections, two connected rails in each section, an example of such a railway being shown in the Letters Patent No. 204.007, granted to me May 21, 1878 and the object of my invention is to provide each section with shoes constructed i'n the peculiar manner fully described hereinafter, so as to afford facilities for readily fitting thesections together in laying the track.

In the acconpanying drawings, Figure l is a side View, showing portions of two rails of adjoining sections and the coupiing-shoe Fig. 2, a side view, showing the manner of introducing a rail of one section into the shoe which is permanently attached to a rail of an adjoining section Fig. 3, a sectional plan on the line 1 2; Fig. 4, a transverse section on the line 3 4, Fig. 3; Fig. 5, a transverse section on the line 5 6; Figsfiand 7,views showing modified forms of shoes; and Figs. 8 and 9 plan, views of two sections of the raiiway, drawn to a reduced scale, and as they appear before they are fitted together.

Each section of the portable railway eonsists of two rails, A A, connected together by cross-stays, and is furnished at one end with shoes B B, one of which is permanently attached to each rail.

My invention relates to these shoes, the peculiar construction and object of which I will now proceed to describe.

It will be seen on reference to Figs. 3 and 4- that one part of each shoe is permanently secured to the rail A, the shoe being of wroughtiron bent to the form shown, so that its lower portion or base, a, shall underlap the rails, the upper portion or flange, b, conforming in shape with that of the side of the rail to the web of which it is riveted, the base being also riveted to one of the flanges of the rail.

About half of the shoe projects beyond the end of the rail to which it is permanently secured, and the flange b of this projecting portion is made outwardly fiaring from about the point indicated by the dotted line w w, so that the said flange I will, at the dotted line 5 6, bear the relation shown in Fig. 5 to the rail A-that is, the flange b of the shoe will be free from contact with the side of that rail.

On reference to Fig. 1 it will be seen that the endm of the projecting portion ofthe shoe is so beveied that its base shall be the most prominent part. The object of this and of the fiaring fiange b will be best understood by referring to Figs. 8 and 9, where the shoeless end of one section of the railway is in a position to be fitted to the shoes B B of another section.

If these shoes are straight and the fit of the ends of the rails of 'the section Fig. 9 in and between these shoes be tight, much time and labor will be consumed in moving the section Fig. 9 to its place. Indeed, in many instances the projecting ends of the shoes must be hammered before this can be done. When the sec tions are furnished with my improved shoes, however, the case is different, for in adjusting the rails of the section, Fig. 9, the first thing to do is to raise the end of that section, move the latter forward to the position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2, and then lower it so that its rails will rest on the prominent portion of.the base, the beveled ends of the shoes permitting this lowering of the rails to the position shown without being interfered with by the flange, after which all that remains is to move the section forward, and this may be easily done, owing to the fiaring sides of the shoes, the section, however, after reaching its destination, being properly confined laterally by the flanges I of the shoes, because the ends of the rails have passed the point where the fiaring of the sides of the shoes commences. This beveiing of the projecting end of the shoe may be adopted with advantage without fiaring the side of the same; and l wish it to be understood that I do not here claim, broadly, fiaring projecting shoes on one section of a portable railway for receiving the rails of the adjoining section.

The shoes may be made as shown in Fig. 6, or as seen in Fig. 7, providing the plan described of fiaring the flanges, as well as beveiing the projecting ends of the shoes, is retained.

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Iclaim as my invention In testinony whereof I have signed my 1. In a portable railway,ashoe, B, attached name to this specification i the presence of o to one section. and having its projecting eud two subscribing witnesses. beveled for receiving a rail of the adjoining 5 section,substantallyin the maner described. CONDHJT? 2. A rail-coupling shoe in which a base, a, Witnesses: is combined with a fiaring fiange, b, beveled JAMES F. TOBIN, or cut away, all as set forth. HARRY SMITH. 

